Flashback: Happy 80th, Chrysler Building
14 photos
<p>In <em>Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars</em>, the public observation lounge is discussed more; "In the design of the public observation lounge, located just above the Cloud Club, Van Alen outdid himself. In all likehood inspired by German Expressionist filmsets, Van Alen capitalized on the narrow gallerylike space tucked in under the spire by treating the walls as a series of tilted in angular planes collapsing inward toward the ceiling... the walls were painted with fading sun rays and shaded at the top into a star-studded nighttime sky. The lighting fixtures were miniature Saturns: globes of milky glass ringed in metal."</p>
<p>The Cloud Club</p>
<p>View of the Chrysler Building, 1930.</p>
<p>"View of the Chrysler Building which housed TIME offices from 1932-1938." 1937</p>
<p>"New York City skyline w. the Empire State Building (R) & the Chrysler Building (L) looming above buildings in New Jersey taken w. the aid of a 40-inch Dallmeyer telephoto lens." September 1946</p>
<p>"William McCormack stands before skyline his concrete helped build including, Chrysler and New York Central UN buildings." December 1952</p>
<p>"Businessman Earl Huntington and others gazing at the Chrysler Building from upper floor office in the Pan Am building." 1962</p>
<p>"A good-close up of checks relating to the Chrysler Building real estate deal." October 1953</p>
<p>"A good-close up of bonds relating to the Chrysler Building real estate deal." October 1953</p>